The idea that a company could scan an actor's face and then use it and profit on it with neither consent nor payment strikes me as deeply troubling conceptually. And especially knowing the reality of early actor's careers, you need money. You're going to give up your essentially image rights for posterity to be used. However, anybody sees fit, those could be sold off to other folks. That just strikes me as not something that any corporation should be reasonably asking for.
Hollywood is still shut down by its historic dual strike, but this weekend the industry saw its most explosive box office numbers of the year. So far, Barbie has made over 200 million domestically and Oppenheimer has surpassed 100 million. So are the movies back in business? Or is BarbenHeimer a cultural phenomenon that will be impossible to replicate?
Kara discusses this question with a panel that includes entertainment reporter Matthew Belloni, producer Franklin Leonard and communications expert Brooke Hammerling.
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